All-Grain Beer Kits

Rich and complex with a strong malty sweetness that finishes moderately dry. Dried fruit and dark caramel flavors are balanced with a slightly spicy fruitiness derived from the Belgian yeast. This is a beer that will surely improve and develop with age!

A slightly sweet wheat beer with a strong aroma of fresh chamomile. Munich, wheat and aromatic malts provide a simple background for the banana and clove of the yeast and the chamomile for a sum that is greater than its parts. The Bavarian Wheat yeast strain contributes slight banana and clove undertones.

A blend of wheat and pale malts with flaked oats give this Belgian wit beer a creamy texture and a thick moosey head. Bittered with Saaz hops and finished with bitter orange peel and coriander this is your home brewed answer to Blue Moon. There is a little extra coriander and orange peel in the kit if you want to add more in the secondary to kick up the aroma. Use Wyeast 3944 Belgian Wit yeast for the rest of the flavor profile. Doesn't take a lot of aging to reach its peak.

Spicy rye malt combined with a load of American hops creates an explosion of taste in your mouth. Citrus and grapefruit notes from the hops are well balanced by a huge malt backbone made up of munich, medium crystal, carapils, flaked wheat and the subtle spiciness from the rye.

If you like chocolate, you will love this beer. Nearly 2 lbs. of crystal malt, paired with chocolate, debitterized black and carapils meld with 24 tablespoons of cocoa powder to make this a perfect marriage of beer and chocolate. We suggest Wyeast 1728 Scottish Ale yeast to add enough sweetness to balance the unsweetened chocolate. Want to kick it up a notch? Add a hint of raspberry flavoring. Note that this recipe calls for 1.5 cups of Cocoa Powder which is not included in the kit, but can be purchased at your local grocery store. Don't pick hot chocolate mix though!

A big, West Coast Double IPA crammed with loads of aroma hops! Piney the Welder is a clone of another similarly-named "elder" beer that has been named the #1 beer in America by the AHA many times over. It gets its bitterness from hop extract, delivering a good hop bite and character that balances out the maltiness of the beer. Using a little bit of Crystal 60L and Carapils to give the beer character. A plethora of American hops give this beer big hop flavor and aroma. Three huge, very American hops contribute to this hoppiness: Centennial, Columbus and Simcoe. With a load of hops going in at the end of the boil and at dry hop time, Piney comes out like liquid hop nectar. The perfect double IPA for true hop heads!

A classic hefeweizen beer with a slight honey aroma from the specialty malt. Yeast strain will significantly affect the flavor and aroma of this beer. Use the Wyeast 1010 American Wheat strain if banana and clove flavors are not desired. The addition of honey malt will add a pale orange hue and a waft of honey aroma.

Ryerish Red Ale is the brainchild of Jonathon Mullens, brewer at the Broad Ripple Brewpub in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the helm of the oldest operating brewery in the state of Indiana, Jonathon has brought his knowledge, expertise, and love of rye to the table to create this spectacular beer! Collaborating with Wes Martin, our brewer here, the two have come up with a fantastic brew! Using a healthy portion of both malted rye and chocolate rye to give the ale its characteristic spicy flavor and slightly red color, the two have also used amber, melanoidin and Special B malts to perfectly round out the beer. On tap at the Broad Ripple Brewpub for a limited time, Great Fermentations gives you the opportunity to make this beer at home for yourself!

A very balanced pale ale with a strong floral aroma from the Columbus dry hop. Light in color and body but full in flavor, this is the perfect beer to pair with your favorite barbeque!

This Berliner Weisse style beer is light and dry with a tart finish. Highly refreshing and low in alcohol content make this ale a great thirst quencher.

This recipe has stood the test of time. First brewed over 13 years ago and has been a Great Fermentations standard ever since. With an original gravity of around 1.054, this beer is so flavorful that it drinks as a much bigger beer. A rich unsweetened to semi-sweet chocolate palate comes from a pound of chocolate malt and 4 oz. of debitterized black. The palate is rounded out with some 60L crystal and enough Cluster hops to bitter. We suggest Wyeast 1007 German Ale for a dry finish or 1728 Scottish Ale for a more malty finish. Want to change it up? Add cacao nibs or cold-pressed coffee in the secondary.

An easy drinking American Pale Ale using super late additions of Mosaic Hops for a huge hop flavor and aroma. Mosaic is a newer hop on the market, crossed between Simcoe and Nugget. Look for big tropical fruit and floral notes, with some earthiness tossed in for good measure. A well rounded sessionable APA that you'll want to have a couple of.

Not too hoppy with 7 HBUs of Galena for bitterness and a specialty grain bill of medium crystal, chocolate and wheat. There is a touch of sweetness from a half pound of lactose and a cup of brown sugar added during the last 10 minutes of the boil. Sweet Georgia Brown will remind you of an English style brown ale.

A light and easy drinking wheat beer with a subtle spicy hop aroma. Aromatic, munich and flaked wheat impart a malt-bread flavor with a bit of creaminess from the flaked wheat. Bittered with Saaz and hallertau and finished with a half ounce of hallertau at the end of the boil. Use Wyeast American Wheat 1010 for a dry, slightly tart, crisp beer with none of the German weizen esters. Make it into a raspberry wheat by adding a pound of raspberry puree toward the end of fermentation.

Big on hops, low in alcohol! Big Little Guy Session IPA follows in the footsteps of many commercially-produced session IPAs by delivering a big hop punch without harsh bitterness. In addition, the ABV is kept low, so that you can have several in a session and not fall flat on your face! This Founder's All Day IPA clone includes a combination of Amarillo, Simcoe and Crystal hops that fill out the hop profile, delivering a delicious burst of hops on the pallet that do not linger or become overly bitter. A blend of crystal malts, dark wheat and flaked oats contribute sweetness, body and mouthfeel to balance the beer out. With a quick turnaround, this beer is incredibly easy to make and can be ready to drink quickly! In a few weeks you'll be sitting on the back porch, enjoying several of these with friends. Cheers!

Ivan the Terribly Delicious will dominate your taste buds! A big imperial red ale that looks and drinks like a red double IPA, Ivan will storm your mouth with a satisfying combination of huge malt flavor and delicous American hops! Cara-Amber malt gives this beer a red hue and fullness, while Columbus, Amarillo and Citra hops provide a wonderful citrus character. Using an English yeast strain to ferment this beer allows the malt and slight residual sweetness to perfectly balance the hop character.

Developed by Great Fermentations employee Brandon, this beer has found favor with our whole crew. Now, thanks to his liberty with the recipe, we bring the opportunity to brew his fabulous imperial red ale to you. Ivan the Terribly Delicious will make you the unquestioned beer Tsar among all your friends!

Life's A Beach is a small session beer that drinks like a big IPA! Very smooth, the low ABV on this beer means that you can have several in a session without falling flat on your face. But that doesn't mean it's light on flavor! Crystal 20 malt provides residual sweetness and body on top of the base, with Maris Otter rounding out the malt character with a bit of breadiness. A melange of hops dominated by Amarillo give this beer its delicious hopiness! A perfect beer for the beach, or any occasion!

Rich chocolate malt mingles with 2 lbs. of PB2 powdered peanut butter to make a truly decadent porter. Golden Naked Oats add body and creaminess, turning this classic robust porter into something so much more. So good you will say, I'll have a nutter, please. Consider adding cocoa nibs into the secondary fermenter to make this porter truly over the top! Note that this recipe is written for a 6 gallon batch to account for the extra sediment from the peanut butter. Final yield will be 5 gallons after racking off of layer of sediment.

A light session ale in the 3-4% ABV range. Small amounts of munich and flaked wheat provide a neutral palate for fruit, spice or herb beers. If adding any of these, we suggest using a yeast that will provide a little residual sweetness like Wyeast American II 1272 or Ringwood ale 1187. This beer is good on its own but a great base for fruit beers.

A true English style robust porter, straight out of the pages of history! The Dark Side Robust Porter uses a healthy dose of Brown malt, a malt that porters traditionally used as their base, to add a heavy robust character to the beer. Notes of coffee flow forth in the flavor profile, aided by some chocolate malt and balanced by some crystal malts from the U.K. Add some English Fuggle hops on top, and you've got a robust porter that finishes big with a hint of sweetness. Once you go to the dark side, you may never go back!

Who can forget childhood memories of gingerbread houses, adorned with sweet, creamy icing and tasting of exotic spices? Our Gingerbread Brown Ale attempts to bring back these memories in a form more suited to mature palates. An array of specialty grains gives this beer its brown color, its sweetness, and its chocolate-roasted notes. Molasses, combined with an assortment of seasonal spices, gives this beer a distinct flavor of gingerbread. Pouring a thick brown, the nose will delight and the taste will dazzle your tongue. Soft and delicious like the homemade gingerbread recipes handed down throughout the ages, this beer is sure to please! Please note that the spices called for in this recipe, are not included in the kit. You'll have to raid your pantry or your local grocery store for these.